The only person who won two years in a row was Nixon, who shared the second honor with Kissinger for China.
I've always thought the idea of naming the winner of the Presidential election before they were inaugurated was stupid - better to do it after their first year. In 2000 they took cover shots of Bush and Gore and, like the rest of us, let the Supreme Court pick the winner.
Time will pull something out of its ass, something trendy to generate cable chatter.